LOL – and no one but Eric should have delivered this line, I love his subtle drolleries.

As for the line itself, I have a habit, in my idle moments, of pondering upon the possibility of sentences which make sense grammatically, and perhaps even logically, but have never been said before. This definitely qualifies

There was a news broadcast on TV a while ago that covered the fire that finally destroyed Brightoin Pier (you’ve seen what’s left of that, Molly). As the news headlines rolled, the serious music thumping away in the background, the headlines were read out, including something along the lines of “Brighton Pier, already battered by the elephants, burns down …”

According to wikipedia, elephants are of the class “Mammalia” and an order called “Proboscidea”. Since the order has a name, its probably unique, thus being an id. Of course, being a member of an order, an elephant is obviously a list item for an ordered list.

The designer is strongly advised to use unobtrusive JavaScript. It is well known that ol#Proboscidea li.Mammalia elephant are reliably unreceptive of mouse events, which have been known to trigger peek-a-boo bugs in a number of browsers.

The second style rule (with the pseudo class :after) is there to fix the frustrating bug of the elephant leaving a constant stream of nasty little turds as it moves along the document. The designer is strongly advised not to move the elephant too far from its starting position, or keep it on screen for too long. Although elephants don’t have memory leaks, those turds keep multiplying rather quickly, resulting in a core dump on many platforms. Mouse events normally accelerate the problem.

A number of web designers have reported that having elephants on their pages makes the pages feel heavy. Fortunately, using the CSS sibling selector and an aural stylesheet hack, we can use “the Hollies hack” to solve that problem:

Sorry for the previous comment, it seems that google is foolishing around, I have only wrote your article on my blog, and I don’t know how did this comment appear.
Please delete it, and sorry again for the inconvenience.